This is bloggish! But it all has to do with art, culture and my future career – hopefully :3
Wednesday; went to the critique session at Animwork to get some good advice for improving my art. I made a lot of notes;
- some long studies for life drawing in addition to the 1-5 minute gesture work.
- also show them muscles in character designs, push for details. And no lazy lines.
- base stuff slightly more in reality. Anatomy was there, but something with.. design inspiration, I am not sure. Researching before drawing!
- something DIFFERENT for backgrounds. Yeah that’s just going to be hard work and practise. Maybe some happy mood backgrounds. Not as tight as a lined drawing, not as loose as my painted ones.
- more genres on characters especially, not just sci fi and fantasy. So, everyday, horror, detective, and whatnot. They were happy enough with my character design variation in itself.
- don’t get involved in drama on dA 2 weeks before deadline so you can’t concentrate. No, I just added that.
But really I just want to get started with more time to go on, and that’s why I’ve given my website a serious overhaul, it’s a great portfolio tool. Once things are put up I can see what I need to do, really.
Sometimes I get irritated with Animwork because they can be unresponsive (when they are busy?), and obviously because I don’t get in, but every time I go there I just become SO HAPPY from seeing the stuff they make, meeting the students, meeting the hopefuls like myself. Great people!
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Thursday and Friday; M found some good companies I could apply for – something I hadn’t thought to search in; architectural visualization (for some silly reason it’s catalogued under multimedia animation, don’t ask me why), so I worked to make a 3D portfolio, she called them to ask if they could take an intern, yes, so we worked to make some applications.
AND the big news – about an hour after I sent that, one of them called – so I have an interview tomorrow for an internship! So hopefully I get to get LOTS of 3D experience in the next couple of months, learn a thing or two about environments and pretty rendering. And maybe we’ll do some CRAZY things.
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Friday evening I went with my family to see a play of Sweeney Todd at the theatre. It was very fun and captivating. Made some doodles of the actors, that I forgot to scan!
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Saturday I had a barbecue with some of the girls from my art course last year. Very nice to see them again!
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Sunday, today; I’ve always wanted to make a 3D pony, so I took the time to photograph one of mine and made this;

It’s not a “friendship is magic” style one – I like those, but I still prefer the good ol’ stuff, and a lot of people are making FiM ponies at the moment. In fact a lot of other people are choking on ponies by now, hahaha. I even caught some flak for making them. (You can watch Friendship is Magic on pensivepony’s youtube.)
And with that, I’ll hit the bed, got a long and exciting day tomorrow, with creative workshops and the interview :3